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Move Over Fallout 3, Here Comes The Ultimate Post Apocalyptic Shotgun

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 11:55 AM PDT

Putting it frankly, a Mossberg 500 is a badass gun. But a survival expert has gone out of his way to make it awesome to the point of near-ridiculousness. By chronicling his extensive mod, he offers a glimpse into the unique aspect of the American imagination.

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Hotmail Cracks Down On Stupid Passwords

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT

We’d love to add ‘and threatens jail time for repeat offenders’ but that’s not true. In the wake of so many high profile hacks in as many months, Hotmail is being proactive and embargoing the so common obvious passwords. Yeah, that’s right. We’re onto your “qwerty123″ nonsense on every single online account you use.

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A Very Strange Literary Experiment Using Water Vapor (Video)

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Call it a smoky art installation or a unqiue tribute to what’s considered a timeless novel: Don Quixote. Also known as “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” by that Cervantes guy, ex-slave, soldier of fortune, and small time entrepreneur. Oh yeah, he wrote a novel too.

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Coming Soon: Human Based Gelatin Will Feed The World

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Alright, it’s official: we’re on the road to Soylent Green. Ugh. How did it come to this?

* shakes righteously indignant fist at McDonalds.*

As the title of this post indicates, a group of scientists who are no doubt aware that world food supplies are dwindling have conducted research on human based gelatin for food production.

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Lethal Pro Stand Looks Like It Will Jump On Your Face

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 11:13 AM PDT

And lay bionic eggs. You know, Aliens? But that’s not the case with the Lethal Pro Gadget Spider Stand, a six-legged contraption that looks like a gnarly cyborg hand. It really is just a humble gadget holder, be it iPhone, smartphone, camera or even tablet.

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HTC Sensation Review

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 03:14 AM PDT

HTC has been producing some great Android smartphones, and their latest flagship model is the HTC Sensation, which comes with a range of impressive specifications, we recently showed you some hands on photos of the new HTC Sensation, and have been testing it out over the last 10 days, so its time to let you guys know what we thought about the HTC Sensation.

The first thing you notice about the HTC Sensation is the size of the device, it features a large 4.3 inch qHD display. so the handset has a similar size to the Samsung Galaxy S II we reviewed recently and also features very similar specifications.

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Apple Pushes Out 4.3.4 iOS Update

Posted: 16 Jul 2011 01:50 AM PDT

Anticipating their biggest new iOS refresh in a while, Apple are patching up the now famous PDF viewing glitch that jailbreakers have been exploiting. Fortunately for jailbreakers who like to stay on top of things, hackers out there are already claiming to have sidestepped Apple’s new security measures and to have a working Pwnage Tool.

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Netflix Eyeing European Launch Again?

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:35 PM PDT

Rumors of Netflix’s impending foray in the European market have become regular fixtures and will make their way to a headline or two per year. Unfortunately, they have yet to materialize, as will probably be the case with this latest round of info from Variety of all places. Apparently Netflix is totally serious this time about bringing its service across the Atlantic, with the UK and Spain being the primary targets.

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Gamestop Using Battlefield 3 To Steal March On Steam

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Gamestop’s purchase of digital delivery service Impulse is no secret by now. Their strategy to make it into a Steam-killer, however, is, or at least was until outed by Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian’s report. It’s pretty much what you’re thinking, Gamestop is planning on using the EA/Steam feud and Battlefield 3′s conspicuous absence from the aforementioned service to tear a 1.5 billion chunk of the market from Steam.

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Microsoft Has Best First Party Games

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:33 PM PDT

Following the tradition of game industry execs under the impression that saying something will magically will it into existence, here’s Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin’s take on Microsoft’s first party studio output: best there is. Sony and Nintendo aren’t usually all that reality-based when it comes to talking up their own offerings, but this particular case strikes us as something of a doozy.

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